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Ruddell’s imagery captures a vivid dream-like world seemingly caught in a temporal flux, where figures act out miraculous feats of levitation and balance. We do not know how or why these feats are possible but we stand in silent observation of the phenomenon. The turbulent nature of the subject matter exposes the viewer to the artist’s metaphysical search for “being and identity” in a politically charged time.

For these works Ruddell draws on observations of his family relationships, taking note as his children have transitioned from adolescents to adults and recollecting how he, his wife, …